Your Smartphone Apps Are Spying On You
Is your iPhone secure? Can your CrackBerry be trusted? Is your Droid the Noid? (Yes, that was an 80's Domino's pizza reference.)
Lame jokes aside, privacy advocates and consumers are becoming concerned that our precious little smartphones are storing, tracking and sharing all kinds of unwanted information. Or, more specifically, the apps are tracking them.
Concerned about apps tracking? You probably should be.
"In the world of mobile, there is no anonymity," says Michael Becker of the Mobile Marketing Association, an industry trade group. A cellphone is "always with us. It's always on."
So if you're concerned about this, what can you do about it? Besides destroying your phone, virtually nothing at the moment. According to Geoff Herbert at Syracuse.com, the only way to be completely safe is to "turn off your smartphone, throw it on the ground," and "jump on it repeatedly."
Related Resources:
- Smartphone apps sending out personal information (The Daily Caller)
- Android Smartphone Gains Market Share, But is it Right for Attorneys? (FindLaw's Technologist)
- iPhone v. Blackberry: Apple Targets BigLaw, Corporate Market (FindLaw's Technologist)